Native Tongue Reading Group
Witchy Methodologies2016 What If Women Don’t Exist?Inventing a World That Has Not Happened

Extract from From Specters To Speculations, talk with slides, 15 minutes, 2017

Returning to sites
that are haunted by failure, the desiring fan disturbs specters from the
past....

This short presentation offers fandom as a practice of re-animation. Drawing on works of fiction, theory and fandom from Suzette Haden Elgin, Jeanne Gomoll, Catherine Grant and Elizabeth Freeman, this paper considers how
encounters with feminist failures might conjure new imaginary possibilities for the future.

Extract from From Specters To Speculations, talk with slides, 15 minutes, 2017

This paper was originally created for Hauntopia/What If?, hosted by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna at The Research Pavilion, Venice, in 2017.